James Earl Jones Signs Over Darth Vader's Voice Rights, Retiring from Star Wars Respeecher is an AI company out of Ukraine: https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1573301498376757249 Original Vanity Fair article which may be paywalled: Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine There are some fantastic voice actors out there who could take on the role, and already have, and yet, there's something about this particular circumstance that somewhat makes sense; as many Twitter users joked, the voice of Darth Vader is more machine now than man...
The software engineers need hours and hours of speech samples in order to synthesize somebody's voice, and I suspect that'd be tough to do for somebody who's been dead for 56 years.
Why not just promote Scott Lawrence to the part? He's been voicing Vader in SW video games for decades. Having computers play the part just feels wrong.
There may be quite a bit of Deems Taylor's dialog recorded. Although he's not that famous today, he was a well-known personality at the time Fantasia was released (likely the reason he was chosen to be the MC for Fantasia) so it could be that there is much recorded dialog by him.
What if the AI takes one look at the Sequel Trilogy and replaces it with one scene: Luke wakes up and says "What a horrible dream."
